Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby, 7th Earl of Bessborough (13 August 1821 – 24 February 1906) was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and Anglican priest.

He was educated at Harrow School[3] and Trinity College, Cambridge.

[4] Ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1845, he was, between 1846 and 1894 he acted as Rector for the parishes of Canford Magna, Wiltshire; Beer Ferris, Devon; Marston Bigot, Somerset; and Stutton, Suffolk.

On 15 January 1850, he married Lady Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot, daughter of Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans, and his wife Lady Jemima Cornwallis.

Together they had eight children: This biography of an earl in the Peerage of Ireland is a stub.